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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Flowers and Birds, Chinese Gongbi Paintings by Zou Chuan An

Flower-and-Bird Painting :


Bird-and-flower painting is a kind of Chinese painting named after its subject matter. Normally, most bird-and-flower paintings belong to the scholar-artist style of Chinese painting.



According to Chinese tradition, bird-and-flower painting covers "flowers, birds, fish, and insects. It can thus deal with a wide range of natural topics, including flowers (plants), fish, insects, birds, pets (dogs, cats) etc.



Chinese Gongbi Painting : Chinese Traditional Painting with Meticulous Detail



Gongbi Paintings, literally "detailed strokes", are paintings characterized by fine brushwork. Gongbi is a technique in Chinese painting. The name is from the Chinese Gong chin meaning tidy (meticulous brush technique). The technique uses highly detailed brushstrokes that delimits details very precisely and without independent or expressive variation.


It is often highly coloured and usually depicts figural or narrative subjects. In contrast with Freehand Brush-work Paintings, they focused a lot on details. Classical examples of this school are Imperial-court paintings of the Ming Dynasty, Qiu Ying's figure paintings of the Ming Dynasty and Shen Quan's Flowers and Birds of the Qing Dynasty.



























Friday, January 28, 2011

Digital Painting Tutorial


Learning how to paint portraits that aren’t only realistic, but also capture emotion and feeling can be difficult. A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.



For those of you who are interested in learning the art, Dianae from deviantART has an excellent tutorial on digital painting. It comes in 3 parts in both English and French, and also has accompanying brushes and a screencapture lapse video.





http://dianae.deviantart.com/art/Digital-Painting-Tutorial-74468761









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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Flowers, beautiful photos with vibrant colors



Hypnotic seeds© Jörg Hubrich



Sweet Dreams© Billie Jo Moscherosch



Himalayan Blue Poppy © Margaret Barry




Explosion © Sarah Donoghue



                                                                 
                                    Pointed Cyclamen in natural light © Margaret Barry



                                               BLue Poppy © Tracy Martin




the daisy experiment in-camera double exposure





Celestial Gardening  Hibiscus Flower
© Scott Richter


                                                                                   
                                                   Floral Lights © Anna Ridley







                                          Yellow on Blue  © Pedro Lastra  
 

                                                      Rose  © Olivier Maurin




                                                            Dahlia  © Daniel